Treasures found while biking

Marty said:

Steve McDonald said:

Olebiker wrote: I found a set of keys that had the owner's ID on them.
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One thing that's worse than losing your house keys, is losing them
when your address is attached. If you do lose your keys, you should
hope that no one who finds them will have a clue who you are or where
you live. There's nothing more useless than a key, if you don't know
which lock it fits. If I ever lost my keys and someone figured out they
were mine, I'd change my locks before I ever left my home unguarded
again. If you parked and locked your bike, would you attach a tag to
the key, saying it was for the bike with the custom red Steve Gordon
frame, that was in a bikerack at 3rd & Main? Just so if you lost the
key, the finder would be able to steal the bike without the
inconvenience of searching for it?

The jackass to whom you returned the keys was accusing you of doing
what he would likely have done in your situation. Thieves and cheats
always expect that others will behave as they do. It's sort of a
reverse take on the Golden Rule. Probably the best thing to do with
keys, credit cards, etc. that you find, for both you and the loser, is
to just dispose of them in a manner so that they couldn't be found or
used by anyone else.
Steve McDonald

Put your phone number on instead (or maybe a friends address so they'll
get returned to your friend and no-one has to change locks.)

Don't use the phone number, some internet directory services have
reverse lookups, that give an address. Friends address is reasonable,
but check the key in his/her lock first, last thing you want is your
friend to get robbed using your key.

W

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a set of MA2 mavic wheels in garbage heap in good shape.

Park tools Bike tool kit

WE *HATE* YOU.

LOL! ;p

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C.J.Patten said:

I've asked before who carried a camera - now I'm asking "what kind of
treasures have you found while biking?" (and were you able to bring them
home or hide them and pick them up later)

I've found all kinds of stuff. The best thing lately
was my current mount, a Norco Mountaineer w/ rigid fork,
V-brakes and GripShifts. Somebody had monkeyed with it,
couldn't put it back together right, and left it out for
anybody to come along and get the damn thing outa their
sight. So I obliged.

The latest item I found was a pair of clip-on sunglasses.

There's been a recent epidemic of penlight batteries
lying around all over the place. I suspect they're
falling out of people's iPods. A lot of them still
pack a pretty good charge.

cheers,
Tom

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C.J.Patten said:

I've asked before who carried a camera - now I'm asking "what kind of
treasures have you found while biking?" (and were you able to bring them
home or hide them and pick them up later)

I keep hoping, just like I hope to find a great bike for $5 in a garage
sale.

Only thing I've ever found worth a lot was a wallet. Actually, it was a
bunch of us riding along. We see a car stopped ahead, and two girls
running around picking things up off the road. As we approached, they
took off.

Turns out they were picking up money. Lots of it. Some guy had lost his
wallet, which was stuffed with $20s and $50s. The girls obviously
considered it free for the taking. We gathered up what they left, which
still was several hundred bucks IIRC, called the guy's phone number listed
on his driver's license, and gave it back to him.

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David L. Johnson

__o | Arguing with an engineer is like mud wrestling with a pig... You
_`\(,_ | soon find out the pig likes it!
(_)/ (_) |

I ride in a semi-rural area and all I have ever found were turtles that
need help getting to the nearest safe water. I usually take them to the
safest water that is reasonably close, not necessarily the closest
water. It can be quite a chore riding a mile or two while holding a big
turtle.

Tad

Wow. I don't think I've 'found' any type of physical object off hand. I
have lost countless pairs of cheap sunglasses, and gloves though.

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'Things forbidden have a secret charm.'
-tacitus

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I ride in a semi-rural area and all I have ever found were turtles that
need help getting to the nearest safe water. I usually take them to the
safest water that is reasonably close, not necessarily the closest
water. It can be quite a chore riding a mile or two while holding a big
turtle.

You try that with the turtles around here and they're liable to take your
arm off. They are big and ill tempered. They do NOT turn turtle and tuck
their heads in. They attack.

--
'The desire for safety strains against
every great and noble exercise.' -tacitus

lowkey said:

Wow. I don't think I've 'found' any type of physical object off hand. I
have lost countless pairs of cheap sunglasses, and gloves though.

For 'losing' sunglasses, how do we count the ones that fly off your
face during a collision? I mean, first I was too busy sorting out the
collision with the car to worry where they went. So technically I'm
not sure if they count as a loss or an abandonment. The second pair
I'm pretty sure I can count as a loss. They flew off my face into the
swamp (Mercer slough) n'er to be seen again.

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Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g
"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
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lowkey said:

Wow. I don't think I've 'found' any type of physical object off hand. I
have lost countless pairs of cheap sunglasses, and gloves though.

For 'losing' sunglasses, how do we count the ones that fly off your
face during a collision? I mean, first I was too busy sorting out the
collision with the car to worry where they went. So technically I'm
not sure if they count as a loss or an abandonment. The second pair
I'm pretty sure I can count as a loss. They flew off my face into the
swamp (Mercer slough) n'er to be seen again.

My biggest loss in sunglassess is that when riding in the bush I push them
up on my head when in the shade then pull them down when I break out into
the clear. Problem is that those same bushes often sweep them off my head
with out me knowing it. Like I said, I only buy _cheap_ sunglasses.

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with an extremely valuable objective, SIR, worthy of my best efforts, SIR.
Moreover, I feel a heartfelt sorrow for the mother of Private James Ryan
and I'm more than willing to lay down my life, and the lives of my men,
especially you, Reiben, to help relieve her suffering.' -capt miller

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treasures have you found while biking?"

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half ounce of expensive dope.
used pr()n.
pair of Oakley's.
bra.
steak knife
carp.
$20
fishing pole (ok, i was unicycling)
angry flabby running fisherman (also found unicycling)
Donna Summer cd.

separately or together. One can only speculate...
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mac the naïf

Steve McDonald said:

I've found dozens of great tools, accessories, etc. on the road,
but the very best find was a woman who was also riding and she turned
out to be a real treasure.

What neighborhood were you in? I keep looking for one of those, but
it's never happened. I'd guesstimate that of the cyclists I encounter out
riding, about 95% are XY.
I see lots of tire balancing weights, and lug nuts. It's scary to
think how many cars are rolling around town missing one or more of those.
I found a 6" adjustable crescent wrench today. Oddly, I seem to find a
lot of towels. One decent looking one I brought home, laundered, and now
use as a sweat mop on hot days.
And so help me, just about once a year, I find a fork in the road.
(And I don't go anywhere near the Slausen Cutoff!)

Bill

__o | I used to think that I was cool, running around on fossil fuel
_`\(,_ | Until I saw what I was doing was driving down the road to ruin.
(_)/ (_) | - James Taylor

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I've found dozens of great tools, accessories, etc. on the road,
but the very best find was a woman who was also riding and she turned
out to be a real treasure.

Steve McDonald

last week i found a #10 box wrench (german steel) which is exactly what i
needed!
....and greater perceptual accuity.

I found a turtle crossing the road near my house once. I stopped to
help it across without getting smashed. It's shell was about 12" long
and it must have weighed 10 lbs, though I just guessing because I
didn't pick it up. When I approached it from behind and reached out a
hand to pin it down and get control of it , it spun around as fast as
any snake and snapped at me. I have no doubt I would have lost a
finger if I hadn't jumped about 3 feet into the air. I left it there
to make its own way across the road.

Was singletrack riding with a group. Only two in the group (including
myself) was carrying presta valve spare tubes. By the time we were out in
the middle of nowhere, my pal Harold (very prone to flats) had used his
spare tube, and then my spare. Given that he had had up a dozen flats on a
past ride, things were looking grim.

About a mile past the point where we ran out of spare tubes, I came upon a
box lying dead in the middle of the singletrack. Inside was a new presta
MTB tube. Nice, but creepy.

MR said:

I found a turtle crossing the road near my house once. I stopped to
help it across without getting smashed. It's shell was about 12" long
and it must have weighed 10 lbs, though I just guessing because I
didn't pick it up. When I approached it from behind and reached out a
hand to pin it down and get control of it , it spun around as fast as
any snake and snapped at me. I have no doubt I would have lost a
finger if I hadn't jumped about 3 feet into the air. I left it there
to make its own way across the road.

Kind of a different proof that mother nature doesn't really want our 'help."

Austin

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Was singletrack riding with a group. Only two in the group (including
myself) was carrying presta valve spare tubes. By the time we were out in
the middle of nowhere, my pal Harold (very prone to flats) had used his
spare tube, and then my spare. Given that he had had up a dozen flats on
a past ride, things were looking grim.

About a mile past the point where we ran out of spare tubes, I came upon a
box lying dead in the middle of the singletrack. Inside was a new presta
MTB tube. Nice, but creepy.

OMG... Twilight Zone... 8o

C.J.Patten said:

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I've asked before who carried a camera - now I'm asking "what kind of

treasures have you found while biking?" (and were you able to bring them
home or hide them and pick them up later)

My own pannier. I was riding on a dirt road and an empty pannier fell
off. I didn't notice until about an hour and a half later, when I went
to put some groceries in the pannier.

I searched and searched along the road with no luck. About a year and
a half later I was in a small town about 40 km from that road with the
one pannier on. A local cyclist came over and asked if I'd lost the
other one. He had found it and if I wanted to follow him he'd dig it
out of his shed.

Not quite picked up off the road but still a treasure

John Kane
Kingston ON

John, I think I read about this in another thread! You've got very
distinctive panniers, don't you? (yellow or something?)

That's a VERY cool story. That goes into my "faith in humanity" file.
Do you have a link to the original story you posted? (I remember it went in
to great detail)

Thanks!
Chris

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C.J.Patten said:

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I've asked before who carried a camera - now I'm asking "what kind of

treasures have you found while biking?" (and were you able to bring them
home or hide them and pick them up later)

My own pannier. I was riding on a dirt road and an empty pannier fell
off. I didn't notice until about an hour and a half later, when I went
to put some groceries in the pannier.

I searched and searched along the road with no luck. About a year and
a half later I was in a small town about 40 km from that road with the
one pannier on. A local cyclist came over and asked if I'd lost the
other one. He had found it and if I wanted to follow him he'd dig it
out of his shed.

Not quite picked up off the road but still a treasure

John Kane
Kingston ON

C.J.Patten said:

what kind of treasures have you found while biking?

I've found lots of tools [spanners, sockets, etcetera] and some playable
CDs, but what I see the most on my route are women's shoes. I'm not
kidding, virtually every day I'll see a shoe in the street somewhere.

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"Bicycling is a healthy and manly pursuit with much
to recommend it, and, unlike other foolish crazes,
it has not died out." -- The Daily Telegraph (1877)

Dave Mayer wrote:

About a mile past the point where we ran out of spare tubes, I came
upon a box lying dead in the middle of the singletrack. Inside was a new
presta MTB tube. Nice, but creepy.
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That tube was placed there by the Devil. The next time you use it
to go riding like Hell, think about how much of a bargain the price was.

Steve McDonald